Nice to see Mint 18.3 support Flatpak in Software Manager as Flatpak tends to keep up with latest versions before other repositories. Now LibreOffice can be updated to most recent without having to do manual upgrades, though it does launch more slowly given the nature of separate libraries.

Would like to see Mint Software Manager improve Flatpak features such as...

- Sort by name, most recent in the Flatpak category
- Search just Flatpak repository, not entire repository
- Have a setting to prefer Flatpak package over Ubuntu/Debian repositories

Thanks Joseph. Personally I think this could do with being clarified. Perhaps the forum could be renamed in a way that better implies it's not an official suggestion portal and a sticky could be added, otherwise this misperception will persist. Ideally people would be funnelled to discuss ideas here and develop/weed out bad ones via community feedback before posting on Github. There's also https://community.linuxmint.com/idea which is yet another portal. Basically this could do with rationalising/clarifying to make it easier for both users and the dev team.

@MintBean I agree. Devs rarely come here. I'm here at times but sometimes go quite a bit of time without visiting. To be frank, I wouldn't bother with the ideas thing on the community site either. Not sure anyone looks at that anymore. I would expect there will be some changes to where people get pointed and how this is handled at some point.

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I completely support your suggestions! When I attempted to install LibreOffice as a Flatpak I was surprised that I had to scroll up and down and actually look for it since there was no way to sort in alphabetical order or to search among the flatpaks.